A century ago, millions of Americans banded together in defense of white, Christian America and traditional morality—and most of their compatriots turned a blind eye to the Ku Klux Klan.
Most Americans today likely think of the Ku Klux Klan as an organization whose heyday came in the civil-rights era of the 1950s and 1960s, and of its members as lower-class white Southern men—ones who concealed their identities while waving the Confederate flag at pro-segregation rallies, burning crosses on the lawns of their enemies, or brutalizing their innocent victims. Others are perhaps familiar with the Klan of the 1860s and 1870s, which was a white and distinctively Southern terrorist organization composed of men who tortured and murdered people under cover of darkness in an effort to undermine the political and economic freedoms accorded to formerly enslaved people during Reconstruction.
The nature of French feudal society prevented its development of a strong and stable New France in North America. The political, social and economic contexts of feudal France were all closely intertwined. ... This desire for nobility meant that there was little chance to develop into a capitalist
Humanism was a belief the Greeks and Romans practiced. ... Humanism was evident in multiple paintings of the Renaissance time period. The paintings focused on the beauty of the human being and depicted scenes of human interest. The classical belief in humanism was evident in sculptures during the Greek and Roman era.
Marbury v. Madison is important because it established the power of judicial review for the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts with respect to the Constitution and eventually for parallel state courts with respect to state constitutions.
